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the States in 1878, he was the guest of Mr. Childs 

 at Philadelphia. The Dean incidentally mentioned 

 in a post-prandial conversation that Westminster 

 Abbey was conspicuous by the absence of any 

 suitable memorial to some of the earlier English 

 poets. Mr. Childs at once took the hint, and erected 

 the memorial window to Cowper and Herbert, 

 which is now in the Abbey. He further contem- 

 plated placing a window in memory of Shakespeare 

 in the church at Stratford-on-Avon. This scheme, 

 for some reason or another, never came to maturity, 

 but he found the money for the erection of the 

 " American fountain " at Stratford, with which 

 those who have visited that interesting town are 

 doubtless familiar. Sir Henry Irving presided at 

 the opening of it on October 17, 1887, on which 

 occasion Mr. Phelps, the American Minister, de- 

 livered a speech. Mr. Childs, however, never saw 

 it himself. It is a pretty piece of architecture, 

 adorned with a clock, and provides water both for 

 man and beast. But it would have been better had 

 it been fifteen or twenty feet higher, as the door 

 under the arch is so small that even a little boy 

 cannot enter it without stooping. 



From the Ledger Office we went to A. J. Drexel's 

 banking house, and thence to Mayor Fitler's office 



